about us

Independent Performance Artists’ Moving Images Archive (IPAMIA) is a collective and its archive of digital moving image documentation of performance art. Its collection contains not only videos/films but also the digitized texts and printed matter offered by artists being in and from various regions. The main focusis the performance art presented in and after around 1980.

IPAMIA was founded in 2016 and has held events since 2017 to introduce its achievement to the public, where now totally 8 members are engaged in the team process with their skills and expertise. The aim is sustainable distribution and share of knowledge to society through both online public access to the archival data and research in the related field. IPAMIA appreciates cooperation with other archives and organizations for networking as well as future plans including the possibility of donating and transferring its collection.